Petro Poroshenko has urged to punish those responsible for the deaths of security forces during a firefight near Kiev. The President of Ukraine wrote in his Twitter.
“I Express my condolences to the families of the dead policemen. The causes of this painful tragedy needs to be investigated. And all the guilty punished”, — wrote Poroshenko.
Exchange of fire between the police and the security service occurred on the night of December 4 during a special operation in the village knyazhichi, Kiev region. The result of the incident killed five law enforcement officers.
As reported in his Facebook Advisor to the Minister of internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko, members of the criminal investigation conducted in the village knyazhichi of Brovary district of Kyiv operation to arrest the robbers and set up an ambush near one of the houses. In the next house at this point, burglar alarm, and to the place of profit representatives of civil service protection. They are spotted and detained two policemen, scouts, said Gerashchenko. Further, according to him, the team thought that the police was captured by criminals and went to the place where the security guards and police skirmish.
In the result of incident two employees of civil service protection, two police officers intelligence officers and special forces INSERTIONS were part of the team, says the adviser to the interior Minister was fatally wounded.